Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:39:25 -0500
Message-Id: <199812101639.LAA08283@envy.delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com, ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net
In-reply-to: <3.0.1.16.19981210112924.18ff3da2@shadow.net> (message from Ralph
	Proctor on Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:29:24)
Subject: Re: DJGPP 2.02
References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19981210081320 DOT 27bfa482 AT shadow DOT net> <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 19981210112924 DOT 18ff3da2 AT shadow DOT net>
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com


> There I want to work DOS only for DJGPP work and no LFN's (if I can).

DJGPP works just fine on systems where LFNs are not supported.  After
all, it's a *dos* compiler!  If you really don't want LFNs, just set
LFN=N in djgpp.env and make sure you use a dos or djgpp unzip program,
so that you never accidentally create a long file name when installing
software.

If your OS *happens* to support LFNs, DJGPP will use them if you tell
it to, but they are not required.  The only requirement is that if you
tell djgpp to use LFNs, you need to make sure all your long file names
really are long, and if you tell djgpp not to use LFNs, you need to
make sure that all your long file names show up as the correct short
file name.